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Facilitated by Daniel Hughes and Troy Bronsink
"We can’t think ourselves into new ways of living, we must live
ourselves into new ways of thinking."
In July 2017, after the hung jury Ray Tensing trial, two friends,
Daniel Hughes, a black pastor from Price Hill, and Troy Bronsink, a
white pastor from Bond Hill looked around for spaces to have
difficult, courageous conversations about differing experiences of our
same city, nation, and world. They decided to work together to
facilitate spaces for these courageous conversations, convinening
upwards of 70 people over the last two years. What arose were
questions like:
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Does contemplation even make a difference in the “real world” of
political and racial chaos?
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How does our interior work go public?
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Where can we practice meaningful conversations that model self-care
and solidarity?
Courage to Connect is a course designed to facilitate dialogue (as
opposed to debate), and mindful awareness. Like-mindedness can damage
community, but this group is designed to emphasise how shared
intention or “like-heartedness” can hold together a room of people
with very different experiences and convictions. We seek to amplify
the voices of those who aren’t often heard in the mainstream,
without asking the most vulnerable in our gathering to bear the weight
of the conversations.
This is a laid-back conversational space. Our approach benefits from
the behavioral work of mindfulness and the socio-cultural wisdom of
folks like Ibram X Kendi, Stuart Hall, angel Kyodo williams, Cornel
West, bell hooks, Bruce Perry, Parker Palmer and Howard Thurman to
name a few.
There is a food component, where participants bring snacks. The
facilitators bring specific conversations from current events as well
as difficult conversations to have in “brave” ways. And everyone
pitches in to affect how the class unfolds. This 6-week version of the
class is the beginning of something we plan to offer consistently,
with a dream that those who have completed the class might eventually
hold Courage to Connect events in their own communities, and
workplaces around the city.
A great class for those wanting to take the next step from
contemplation to action, and who have the courage to connect in
meaningful ways.
This is class has been sponsored by a donor, we welcome donations for
the course to "pay it forward" for others to take it.
NO CLASS ON MLK HOLIDAY 1/20 OR PRESIDENT'S DAY 2/17.
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